The last diaries : a blaze of autumn sunshine : the last diaries

In This, His Final Volume Of Diaries, Tony Benn Reflects On The Compensations And The Challenges Of Old Age. With The Support Of A Small Circle Of Friends And His Extended Family, He Continues His Activities On Behalf Of Social Justice, Peace, And Accountability In Public Life, Against The Back Ground Of Political Change And The International Economic Crisis. In July 2009, The Diaries, Kept For Over Sixty Years, Cease Following An Illness. Published Here Alongside These Final Entries Are Tony Benn's Personal Insights Into The Disadvantages Of Growing Older, The Loneliness Of Widowhood, The Upheaval Of Moving From The Family Home Of Sixty Years To A Nearby Flat, And The Problems Of Failing Health. Finally, We Share In Tony's Hope For A Better Future Based On His Experience And Optimism-- Book Jacket. 1 May-october 2007: Brown's Honeymoon -- 2 October-december 2007: The Calm Before The Strom -- 3 January-may 2008: The End Of New Labour -- 4 May-august 2008: Crisis Of Capitalism -- 5 August-december 2008: Labour In Crisis -- 6 January-july 2009: Brown's Nemesis -- 7 2009-13: Life After Diaries. Tony Benn ; Selected And Edited By Ruth Winstone. Includes Index. In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age. With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his activities on behalf of social justice, peace and accountability in public life, to a background of political change and the international economic crisis. Following an illness in 2009 the diaries, kept for over sixty years, cease. Published here alongside these last diaries are Tony Benn's highly personal insights into the challenges of old age and failing health, of widowhood,and of moving out of the family home after sixty years. Finally, we share in Tony Benn's hopes for the future based on his years of experience and his natural optimism. Reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age. This title includes personal insights into the challenges of old age and failing health, of widowhood, and of moving out of the family home after sixty years. Tony Benn's diaries chronicle both the public and the personal events of the last decade of his life at Westminster and his retirement thereafter